Transparent Conducting Oxides for Infrared Plasmonic Waveguides: ZnO (Preprint)
Abstract
Plasmonics combines attractive features of nanoelectronics and optics enabling highly integrated, subwavelength optical and electronic circuits. This review introduces different materials available for plasmonic waveguiding applications with an emphasis on highly conducting ZnO. In addition, the paper contains analysis of a set of thin Al-doped ZnO (AZO) layers grown by RF sputtering on quartz glass that employ a unique, 20-nm-thick, ZnON buffer layer, which minimizes the strong thickness dependence of mobility (micro) on thickness (d).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 15, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA592226
Entities
People
- Brett R Wenner
- D. C. Look
- Jeffery Allen
- Monica Allen
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory